Laundry-checking device



J. H. TODD. LAUNDRY CHECKING DEVlC-E. APPLICATION FILED APR. 15, 1920.

Patented Dec. 13, 1921. J 2

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JOHN H. TODD, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

LAUNDRY-CHECKING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 13, 1921.

Original application fil ed April 24, 1919, Serial No. 292,326. Divided and this application filed April 15,

- 1920. Serial No. 374,037.

To aill'whomz'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. Tonn, a citizen of the United States, resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Laundry-Checking Devices,

of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained, and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle so as y to distinguish it from other inventions.

The subject matter of this a plication has been divided out of an app ication upon laundry checking devices, for which Letters Patent were anted tome under date of June 15, 1920, No. 1,343,423.

My invention relates to checking devices and particularly to devices of this character utilized by laundries. The object of the invention is to design a checking device which,

will economically and conveniently serve the purpose of makin it almost. impossible to;

confuse pieces of ferent people.

A further object of the invention is to utilize my novel checking device in connection with a receptacle provided with a multiplicity of compartments adapted to hold various pieces of laundry.

The annexed drawing and the following description sets forth in detail certain means embodying the invention, the disclosed means, however, constituting but one of the various mechanical forms in which the princip[le of my invention may be applied.

11 said annexed drawing:

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a cabinet formed with a plurality of separated chambers in which laundry of difli'erent classes or belonging to different persons may be segregated, said chambers being severa ly provided with difierent keys adapted to cooperate with corresponding check members, the latter being adapted to be secured to the articlesbelonging in or segregated in the corresponding chambers.

Fi 2 represents a front elevation of the said ey.

Figs. 3 and 4 represent, respectively, side and Ian views of the same, the former showing a fragmentary portion of the compartment to which the key is attached, and

Figs. 5 and 6 represent face and side aundry belonging to difvarious classes or various persons.

Referring to the annexed drawings, there are represented by the ordinals 1 to 6, respectively, keys of varied shaped cross-sections associated with and attached to the several compartments 8 of a cabinet or receptacle 9. These several compartments are adapted to receive, in a segregated manner, the several pieces of laundry blongingntlo e several keys mentioned comprise a body member 10 formed with longitudinal splines 11 projecting from the faces thereof, the relative disposition of the splines 11 upon the faces of 10, in the form of apparatus herewith shown, being varied, so that only that check member 12 formed with a groove 13 and intersecting apertures 14 correspond ing with the key, will fit over any one key.

In the form of apparatus herein shown, the check member and corresponding key are indicated by the ordinal 5. The check members 12 are adapted to be secured to the several pieces of laundry by means of pins 15, or any other suitable means.

Heretofore, pins such as those shown in the accompanying drawing by ordinal 15, and provided with different numbers, corresponding to differently numbered compartments of a cabinet such as 9, have been attached to the several pieces of laundry, the same numbered pin being attached to the several pieces of any one compartment.

After the garments have been washed and it is desired to segregate into the proper compartment all the pieces bearing the proper number, often the numbers are read wrongly for some reason, such as turning the 6 or 9 upside down, or by putting the wrong piece in the wrong compartment for other reasons. In the checking system -which I have herein shown and described,

persons, before each piece as described,

shown and claimed in said Letters Patent" ing an aperture similar in outline to the outline of the. cross-section of that one key only it is impossible to make any errors when segregating the laund The length of the splines 11 is immaterial so that the same serve to allow the placing upon the body member 10 of only one class of check-members 12.

My invention is designed not only for use in checking various classes of laundry which should be segregated, but also for checking many articles which temporarily are commingled and later should be segregated into a plurality of definitely defined classes. For instance, ,it will be readily perceived that this invention may be utilized for library purposes, particularly in checking cards, wherein different positioned splines or splines of difi'erent cross-section are formed at the bottom of the card box and interiorly thereof, and different sets of cards having co rfiasponding grooves in their bottom edges ception of articles to be checked, keys fixedly secured to the outer edges of the compartments, each key having a different transverse cross-section, and check members adapted to be removably fitted to the keys, respectively.

3. A laundry checking device comprising a multiplicity of receptacles for receiving the laundry to be checked, a multiplicity of keys fixedly secured adjacent to said receptacles, each key being formed with splines secured in difi'erent'position thereon, a multiplicity of check members adapted to be secured to the articles to be checked, said check members being formed with apertures corresponding with the cross-sections of said sets of splines, respectively. Signed by me, this 10th day of April, 1920.

JOHN H; TODD. 

